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There are concepts of electronic computers that involve streaming data in a vaguely similar way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array https://en.wikipe
by perl4ever 5y ago
There are concepts of electronic computers that involve streaming data in a vaguely similar way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array
An early example of this (an electronic computer in the 1940s!) seems to have been:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
- agumonkey 5y agoYes most analog "computers" were time ordered / streaming. Hollerith and discrete calculating machines were more about unordered data analysis. Static batch of input, chunk it the way you want, forward, backward.. doesn't matter. Very freeing in a way. I can understand why digital computation wiped the market, no noise and no constraint.. how nice. Until it starts to produce spaghetti bowls and crawling insects.